Mark Dickinson added the comment:
I'm not going to pursue this further; try as I might, I really can't
make this anything more than just a personal preference. It doesn't
solve any genuine problem.
Closing.
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resolution: -> rejected
status: open -> closed
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Mark Dickinson added the comment:
I'm still flip-flopping on this one. On the minus side, this change
risks breaking doctests without any enormous gain to show for it.
On the plus side, Eric Smith is currently working on implementing
sensible formatting for complex numbers (issue 1588), and ag
Mark Dickinson added the comment:
> This should probably be discussed somewhat that all the numpy/numeric
> folks can see it.
Good point; I'll post something to the numpy/scipy mailing list and see if
I can get some reactions.
> Also note that any changes to representations tend to break peop
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
This should probably be discussed somewhat that all the numpy/numeric
folks can see it (since they likely comprise the largest group of users
of complex numbers).
Also note that any changes to representations tend to break peoples
doctests. Those are partic
New submission from Mark Dickinson :
In all current versions of Python, the str or repr of a float always
includes *either* an exponent, or a decimal point and at least one digit
after the decimal point.
I propose making the str or repr of a complex number behave in the same
way. That is, in
